Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Ocean Prey
by John Sandford
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
An off-duty Coast Guardsman is fishing with his family when he calls in some suspicious behavior from a nearby boat. It’s a snazzy craft, slick and outfitted with extra horsepower, and is zipping along until it slows to pick up a surfaced diver . . . a diver who was apparently alone, without his own boat, in the middle of the ocean.
None of it makes sense unless there’s something hinky going on, and his hunch is proved right when all three Guardsmen who come out to investigate are shot and killed.
The Hit
by Paul Heatley
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
They wanted someone who wouldn’t make waves. They picked the wrong guy. Zeke Greene walked away from working black ops with the CIA. The Agency didn’t take it well, and they’ve been making sure he can’t find a good job anywhere else.
Out of options, and with a wife and two kids to support, Zeke signs on as Constable of Lavigne County: a forgotten backwater where nothing ever happens. But the sleepy vibe is only skin deep. Some towns in the county are no-go areas for the sheriff. There’s a meth epidemic. A lab is blown sky-high.
He Said/She Said
by Erin Kelly
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.0 #ad
In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they’ll share.
But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it. It is her word against his.
The victim seems grateful. Months later, she turns up on their doorstep like a lonely stray. But as her gratitude takes a twisted turn, Laura begins to wonder—did she trust the wrong person?
Daughter of Mine
by Megan Miranda
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface…and changing everything. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier.
But Hazel’s not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.
Santa Fe Rules
by Stuart Woods
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Successful movie producer Wolf Willett is stunned when he sees his own death reported in a major newspaper. It says he was a victim in a triple homicide during a sordid tryst with his wife and a friend. But who is the unidentified corpse?
Why can’t Wolf remember anything about the night in question? And who wants him dead? Wolf had the means and motive—and his inexplicable memory loss seems far too suspicious to suit Sante Fe’s crusading D.A., who promptly has Wolf arrested.
Easton Island
by Hope Callaghan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Morgan Easton Greer is forced to pick up the pieces and start over after her world is shattered by a series of tragic events including a failing marriage and losing her mother.
Shortly after her mother’s death, a mysterious letter arrives, inviting Morgan to a remote island for the reading of her mother’s will… a will she had no idea existed. Does Morgan have the courage to claim what is rightfully hers and start over by building a life she never dreamed possible?
The Deep End
by Julie Mulhern
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
“My morning swim doesn’t usually involve corpses.” Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband’s mistress tends to ruin a woman’s day, but becoming a murder suspect can ruin her whole life. It’s 1974 and Ellison Russell’s life revolves around her daughter and her art.
She’s long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper’s death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband’s proclivities and his crimes—kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail.
The Munich Girl
by Phyllis Edgerly Ring
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
Anna Dahlberg grew up eating dinner under her father’s war-trophy portrait of Eva Braun. Fifty years after the war, she discovers what he never did—that her mother and Hitler’s mistress were friends.
The secret surfaces with a mysterious monogrammed handkerchief, and a man, Hannes Ritter, whose Third Reich family history is entwined with Anna’s. Plunged into the world of the “ordinary” Munich girl who was her mother’s confidante—and a tyrant’s lover—Anna finds her every belief about right and wrong challenged.
Found
by Erin Kinsley
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When 11 year old Evan vanishes without trace, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Especially as the police, under massive pressure, have no answers. But months later Evan is unexpectedly found, frightened and refusing to speak.
His loving family realise life will never be the same again. DI Naylor knows that unless those who took Evan are caught, other children are in danger. And with Evan silent, she must race against time to find those responsible…
Red Herring
by Warren Adler
Kindle $0.50 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Detective Fiona Fitzgerald’s privileged upbringing in the nation’s capital and her intimate knowledge of its inner workings come in handy when Fran Miller, a top lobbyist, and legal expert, turns up dead on Independence Day. It looks like suicide, but when the clues lead back to Mark Chancellor, Fiona’s best friend’s husband, things get complicated.
Chancellor runs a complex, global conglomerate, and along with his Russian partner, is involved in the pharmaceutical and defense industries. Chancellor is at the top of his game, well-connected in Washington, and known to believe that money is the planet’s most powerful weapon.